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FUR SUBSTITUTE FOR SKIING, ETC

Filed July 17. 1928 l/ qu Patented Jan 27, 19317:'.

UNITED STATES PATENT ori-ICE` p KARL FREIHERR OEDERVON DIERSBURG, F GRAEFELFING, NEAR MUN ICH,*GERMANY IEVUR SUBSTITUTE FOR SKIING, ETC'.

Appneatron Yfue@ .my 17, 192s, serial No. 293,414, and in Germany Deeember 2o; 19,27.

'In order to prevent skis from slipping back when the wearer is mounting hills, it is usual Vto applyy to the latter a tread of sealskin'. Such skins are expensive and not very dure able.

TheV object of the present invention is to provide a substitute for the sealskin, and the invention consists in the provision of a textile fabric to which wires, bristles, hair or like gripping tines are attached so as to form a pile having an inclined position relative to the fabric;

In theaccompanying drawing;- F ig. l is a sectional View of one form of my improved gripping fabric,

Fig. 2 is a similar view of another form of the fabric in an unfinished state, and

Fig. 3 is a sectional vieW of a portion of av ski runner to whichis applied an antislipping covering material comprising the latter form of fabric in a finished state, the runner and its covering appearing in inverted position. f

According to the invention the ski is provided upon its running surface A with an anti-slipping material in the form of a fabric Z), to which wires, bristles, hairs or like tinelike Grippers are attached, preferably to the weft threads c of the fabric, so as to form a permanently inclined pile a, the fabric being applied to the skis like the ordinary sealskin so as to allow offorward movement of the ski, back.

Preferably, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, two separate layers of fabric b and d are employed, one of which is superposed on the other. This arrangement allows the pile forming wires or strands to be the two layers at right angles to the surface,

while preventing it from slipping as sho-wn in Fig. 2, the two layers being sub- Y sequently displaced relative to each other so as to tilt the pile, as shown in Fig. 3, and then fastened together to secure the pile in the in- Y clined position.

The pile thus formed is not, like sealskinv hairs, liable to fall out,but will wear right to the end of the life period of the skis.

vMoreover, the tined gripping fabric embodying my invention formed of stiff and passed through more or less resilient gripping tines, unlike a gripping surface formed of mohair, plush or like pile fabric, ironed to. give its pile an oblique set, will not lose its oblique angle of inclination, but will permanently retain such working angle, due to the character of the lines and to the fact that they are mechanically held at their correct working angle, so that at all times the gripping surface will act to allow the ski to slide forward while preventing itV from slipping backward.

Having thus described my invention, whatv I claim is: f

l. A ski having its runner face provided With an anti-slipping `material comprising a textile fabric and comparatively stilf'rei In testimony whereof I have aHXed my ,i

signature.

KARL FRElHERR ROEDER von DIERSBURG. 

